Skyharbor

Skyharbor is a multinational progressive metal band, whose members are from India, United Kingdom and the United States of America come from. The guitarist Keshav Dhar started the band in 2008 under the name Hydrodjent, which was inspired by the emerging Djent scene.

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History

Development (up to 2009)

The band started as an instrumental solo project of musician originating from India Keshav Dhar. This already was six years old the first time in contact with music when his parents taught him to play the piano. A year before the beginning of the College, Dhar became interested in 2003, more for rock and heavy metal, and then began to deal to play with the guitar. During his studies in biomedical engineering at the shear Manipal University he began, inspired by other solo projects, such as using a computer itself to produce the guitarist Misha Mansoor aka Bulb, music under the name Hydrodjent. After completing his studies Dhar moved to Delhi, where he presented his music in various Internet forums to listen to the criticism the other about this.

Collaborations with other musicians & first live shows (2010-2011)

As Dhar worked on his first studio album, contacted him in October 2010, Daniel Tompkins, former singer of the band TesseracT, via the online community MySpace and showed up at his music interested. He offered him to contribute to his album with a guest appearance in song Dhars Order 66. Dhar sent him a large selection of songs, of which Tompkins was so excited that he took over the vocals on seven of the ten songs from the forthcoming album. In February 2011, announced Dhar to have renamed his project in Skyharbor because Djent was increasingly seen as a genre of its own and no longer had the importance of onomatopoeia. A little later the former Megadeth guitarist Marty Friedman became aware of Dhar 's music project and made two guest appearances in the songs Catharsis and Celestial his contribution to the album. In return Dhar contributed during the recording of Friedman 's solo album Tokyo Jukebox 2.

The end of October, 2011, Dhar known that a native of the United States drummer Anup Sastry had joined the band. He had previously uploaded several drum cover to Dhars songs on the internet website YouTube. Mid-November to be released the first album of the band, but Keshav Dhar came through a friend from the Rock Street Journal with the British record label Basick Records in contact, where he shortly thereafter signed a record contract, so that the release of the album half a year moved been. Shortly after, the band played their first concert at the NH7 Weekender Festival, though still without a singer. The bass also took the Indian native Nikhil Raj, while the drummer Anup Sastry specially traveled all of the United States.

Publication of Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos (2012 )

On April 23, 2012, the debut album Blinding White Noise was: Illusion & Chaos released on Basick Records in Europe, Australia and India. A day later it was available through Prosthetic Records in North America. The idea for the name of the album came from the lyrics of the first song dots. The album was divided into two CDs: the first, Illusion, contained the seven songs on which Daniel Tompkins participated. The second CD called Dhar chaos. It contained three other songs, to which the Indian musician Sunneith Revankar the band Bhayanak toll, which was once touted as a regular singer of Skyharbor, the song took over. Furthermore, was heard alongside Marty Friedman, the Indian guitarist Vishal J Singh with two guest contributions on the album.

End of May 2012 Skyharbor played at a concert of Lamb of God in Bangladesh almost 8000 spectators. Lamb of Gods drummer Chris Adler, who was watching the band since its inception, made the presentation possible. It was also the first concert with a full line-up, as singer Daniel Tompkins traveled all specially for this concert from England. The second guitar took over the guitarist of the Indian band Goddess Gagged Devesh Dayal, who played from then on as a permanent band member for Skyharbor. In the summer of 2012, the Indian label NH7 took over the sale of Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos and thus made ​​the sales of the album for the Indian fans easier. In October 2012 the band played next to Scar Symmetry, After the Burial and Long Distance Calling on the annually held in Germany € Blast Festival, which was the first appearance of the band outside India.

Further development (since 2013)

End of June 2013 the band won a total of eight awards at the Metal Awards of the Indian edition of Rolling Stone. The band won in the category " Best Band ", with the debut album Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos in the category "Best Album" and the song dots in the category "Best Song ", where they both from users and from the jury, which were among other members of the band Karnivool and the Black Dahlia Murder, were chosen as the winner. Furthermore, were Keshav Dhar and Nikhil Rufus Raj honored as the best guitarist or bassist best. In July, the band played a gig hard on the three-day UK Tech - Metal, where they were to be seen alongside bands like Scar Symmetry, Veil of Maya and Chimp Spanner. For the band, it was the first appearance in the UK, however, where the drummer Anup Sastry could not participate and was replaced by Mike Malyan from Monuments of the band because he was on a North American tour with his other band Intervals. In September, the band played two concerts with TesseracT and Monuments in Russia.

Style

Inspired by the solo project Bulb Misha Mansoor and Acle Kahneys TesseracT, Keshav Dhar came up with the idea at home on your own PC to compose using his guitar and various computer programs own music on which the songs on Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos based, their origin partly to its appearance dates back four years. All instruments, which can be heard on the debut album, Dhar produced at home on his own computer. When writing the songs for the album combined Dhar, in his own words, always several guitar riffs to a Single. He then deposited it on the computer with the bass and drum tracks, as well as electronic effects and repeat this step until the result set him happy. The idea of ​​actually connecting as instrumental music project designed with singing, came in 2009, when Dhar sent his first songs to the singer Sunneith Revankar, which then merged it with his singing. The result can be heard on the second disc chaos.

For the second album recorded together are planned.

Discography

Albums

• 2012: Blinding White Noise: Illusion & Chaos (Europe: Basick Records, North America: Prosthetic Records, India: NH7 )